Boris Johnson’s former right-hand man has predicted Nigel Farage to be Britain’s next Prime Minister only if he can build the right team at Reform UK.

Dominic Cummings said Mr Farage will be successful if he can go beyond just being a “one man band with an iPhone” to gathering “genuinely talented people” together.

Mr Johnson’s former Chief Adviser, whose fall from grace in 2020 led to a fiery exchange between the pair, said he would vote for the Reform leader if he managed to pull the a strong team together.

“I think it’s mainly in his hands,” Mr Cummings said.

“If by the time of the local elections next year he’s built the team that the country wants to see, then you have to say that he’s the favourite at that point, for sure.”

Mr Cummings added that if Mr Farage builds the team and “no one else does anything, then I’d vote for him, yeah”.

“Why not?” he added.

The former Chief Adviser warned that if the the Reform leader did not have the right team around him he would “implode” once he was in the position.

In the same interview, Mr Cummings took aim at Sir Keir Starmer, describing him as “completely rubbish at politics”.

He also said Sir Keir was an “NPC PM”.

NPC is a gaming term for ‘non-player character’ and used as an insult by the younger generations for being out of action.

Mr Cummings has been credited for building Mr Johnson’s 2019 landslide victory over Jeremy Corbyn and even passing through the Brexit referendum.

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Mr Cummings claimed Sir Keir would be gone by next year and replaced by either Angela Rayner or Ed Miliband.

His attacks did not stop there.

The former adviser ripped into Kemi Badenoch, saying she was a “disaster” and would be out of the job by the May elections.

He wrote off the Tory party, saying it had “already past the event horizon” and faced extinction.

Mr Cummings further his division with his former boss, saying it was 100 per cent “impossible” for him to make a comeback.

He spoke about how he helped bring down Mr Johnson with a series of leaks which led to the “Partygate” scandal.

The ex-adviser said the British state was “broken”.

“The way to stop the f***ing stupod boat dinghies is to deploy the Royal Navy in the English Channel,” he said.

Mr Cummings added in an interview with The Times that he would not return to politics.

Instead, he prefers spending time with his family.